Grazed, burnt and cleared: How ecologists have studied century-scale vegetation changes in Australia

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 391-407

  Lunt, Ian D ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEARCUTTING; DISTURBANCE; GRAZING; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; PRESCRIBED BURNING; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0036041267     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/BT01044     Document Type: Review

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